* Cell type-specific effects of adenosine on cortical neurons.
- The neuromodulator adenosine is widely considered to be a key regulator of sleep homeostasis and an indicator of sleep need. Although the effect of adenosine on subcortical areas has been previously described, the effects on cortical neurons have not been addressed systematically to date. To that purpose, we performed in vitro whole-cell patch-clamp recordings and biocytin staining of pyramidal neurons and interneurons throughout all layers of rat prefrontal and somatosensory cortex, followed by morphological analysis. We found that adenosine, via the A1 receptor, exerts differential effects depending on neuronal cell type and laminar location. Interneurons and pyramidal neurons in layer 2 and a subpopulation of layer 3 pyramidal neurons that displayed regular spiking were insensitive to adenosine application, whereas other pyramidal cells in layers 3-6 were hyperpolarized (range 1.2-10.8 mV). Broad tufted pyramidal neurons with little spike adaptation showed a small adenosine response, whereas slender tufted pyramidal neurons with substantial adaptation showed a bigger response. These studies of the action of adenosine at the postsynaptic level may contribute to the understanding of the changes in cortical circuit functioning that take place between sleep and awakening.
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Overview of noun found
The noun found has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) found -- (food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked for $30 and found")
Overview of verb found
The verb found has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (9) establish, set up, found, launch -- (set up or found; "She set up a literacy program")
2. (4) establish, found, plant, constitute, institute -- (set up or lay the groundwork for;
"establish a new department")
3. establish, base, ground, found -- (use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some
observation")
Overview of verb find
The verb find has 16 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)
1. (159) find, happen, chance, bump, encounter -- (come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find
this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She
chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day")
2. (141) detect, observe, find, discover, notice -- (discover or determine the existence, presence,
or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in
the paint")
3. (86) find, regain -- (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed
or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!")
4. (57) determine, find, find out, ascertain -- (establish after a calculation, investigation,
experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the
elusive particle won the Nobel Prize")
5. (57) find, feel -- (come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds;
"I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather
entertaining")
6. (45) witness, find, see -- (perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning
the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the
younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results")
7. (41) line up, get hold, come up, find -- (get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I
found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our
plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter")
8. (34) discover, find -- (make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays";
"Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle")
9. (29) discover, find -- (make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is
false, so far as I can discover")
10. (16) find -- (obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care
of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college")
11. (16) rule, find -- (decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty")
12. (13) receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These
aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a
good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions")
13. (11) find -- (perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a
difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room")
14. recover, retrieve, find, regain -- (get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control
of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly")
15. find -- (succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark")
16. find oneself, find -- (accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My
son went to Berkeley to find himself")
Overview of adj found
The adj found has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) found -- (come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the lost-and-found
department")
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